City Of Burbank v. The State Of Nevada

658 F.2d 708 CITY OF BURBANK, a municipal corporation, City of Glendale, a municipal corporation, City of Pasadena, a municipal corporation, City of Los Angeles, a municipal corporation, the Department of Water and Power of the City of Los Angeles, and The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The STATE OF NEVADA, The Nevada Department of Taxation, Nevada Tax Commission, and Clark County, Nevada, Defendants-Appellees. No. 79-3800. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted July 8, 1981. Decided Oct. 8, 1981. David W. Hagen, Guild, Hagen & Clark, Reno, Nev., for plaintiffs-appellants. Tudor Chirila, Deputy Atty. Gen., Carson City, Nev., argued, for defendants-appellees; Robert J. Miller, Las Vegas, Nev., on brief. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. Before SKOPIL and FARRIS, Circuit Judges, and CURTIS, * District Judge. FARRIS, Circuit Judge: 1 Plaintiffs, which include various Southern California municipalities, a water district and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, all purchase from the United States electrical energy generated in Nevada. In May 1977, Nevada…